Aijia Kefu: Your Majesty, please avoid

Chapter 64 The Queen Mother committed suicide by taking poison!
On October [-]th, Emperor Huai passed away for a hundred days.The royal family members and civil and military officials rushed to the imperial mausoleum in plain clothes.

Su Qingyuan is still tired from time to time these days, and the journey has been tiring and exhausting.

After finally arriving at the imperial mausoleum, I had to get off the car and walk up the mountain according to the rules, which was another torture.

Lu Li walked diagonally behind her, not daring to take a quick step, nor did he dare to take a slow step.

Not even daring to take a second look.Mingming was extremely nervous, but he could only look at the imperial mausoleum on the high mountain with a reverent expression.

At the back of the team, another gaze was much more magnanimous, following Su Qingyuan all the way, never leaving.

However, the distance is too far away.

The distance of hundreds of feet means that the identity is like clouds and mud, which is a natural moat that cannot be crossed in a lifetime.

Supported by Luoxia and Danyue, Su Qingyuan walked with difficulty step by step.

Royal ceremonies have always been ungrateful, and Man said that she was only weaker, and even if she was really sick, she would have to climb to the imperial mausoleum.

The civil and military officials walking behind, the palace servants serving at the side, the imperial guards guarding inside and outside, and the people in the suburbs of Beijing who gathered at the foot of the mountain to watch the excitement, all of them were quietly watching Su Qingyuan's movements. Every move, expecting to see something unusual from her.

Half an hour later, standing at the gate of Yande Hall where the ceremony was held, Su Qingyuan let out a long sigh of relief.Luoxia wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief, and asked in a low voice, "Is the empress still able to bear it?"

"If you can bear it or not, you have to bear it." Su Qingyuan said lightly.

The team behind slowly climbed up.After kneeling three times and knocking nine times, the female relatives and officials were invited to rest in the side halls on both sides.

The ceremony of removing filial piety was lengthy and boring. Fortunately, female relatives and officials below the third rank were not eligible to participate in the officiant ceremony.After Su Qingyuan knew that she didn't have any errands for the time being, she lay down on the Arhat bed in the Xipian Hall with peace of mind.

Su Qingluan walked over timidly, moved a small stool and sat down beside her, and held Su Qingyuan's hand: "It's too hard to travel like this, sister—do you feel uncomfortable right now?" ?”

Su Qingyuan said calmly: "It's okay. I've been used to being wild since I was a child, and I'm not that delicate. But you've always been weak, are you tired now?"

"I'm... also fine." Su Qingluan was obviously absent-minded.

Seeing that she had nothing to say, Su Qingyuan just closed her eyes and rested herself.

After a while, Su Qingluan leaned down and leaned into her ear and asked in a low voice: "Sister, is she annoyed that I don't go to Fanghua Palace recently?"

"You're overthinking." Su Qingyuan closed her eyes and dealt with it casually.

Su Qingluan turned her head and winked at Danyue Luoxia and the others, but no one was willing to back away.

In desperation, Su Qingluan had no choice but to lower her voice: "Sister, I met my father a few days ago, you must know it. I haven't figured out how to tell you, so I dare not Seeing you—my father said that he is absolutely sure to pull the emperor off his horse, if you are willing to help, you will be the first to receive the glory and wealth of the Su family in the future."

"Will you be his help?" Su Qingyuan asked calmly, without even opening her eyes.

Su Qingluan didn't answer for a long time.

Su Qingyuan was not in a hurry, as if the two of them were not talking about life and death, but about today's weather.

Finally, when Su Qingyuan was about to fall asleep, Su Qingluan hesitated and said, "Of course I follow my sister. My father is more than strict but not loving enough. My sister has treated me better these years. My sister and I The emperor has one heart and one mind, and lives and dies, Qingluan will naturally not make her sister sad."

Su Qingyuan hooked the corners of her lips, and said with a smile: "If you disobey your father's order, Aunt Ruan will be very sad."

"She's just a slave, what does it matter if I'm sad or not?" Su Qingluan's tone was very flat.

Su Qingyuan said "Yes" without commenting, and said flatly: "Father said that he is absolutely sure, but Lu Li also thinks that he has a plan. It seems that the outcome of this confrontation is hard to say."

"The emperor is a king, and my father is a minister. From a righteous point of view, my father has already lost." Su Qingluan lowered his head and sighed a little bit disappointedly.

Su Qingyuan smiled disapprovingly: "The winner is a prince and the loser is a bandit. There is no 'righteousness' in this world."

Having said that, Su Qingluan fell silent.

Su Qingyuan dozed off in a daze, and when she opened her eyes and saw her sister still sitting beside her, she couldn't help feeling puzzled.

She couldn't but doubt Su Qingluan's intentions.

Before Luanjia set off, she saw Cheng Yu at the gate of the palace, and the latter said to her: Su Qingluan once approached Duke Ding, claiming that General Su Yi had the intention of treason, and advised Duke Ding to contact the courtiers earlier to prepare Unexpectedly.

Su Qingyuan looked at this younger sister with admiration.

You must know that Qingluan has been terse with words since she was a child, and she is almost speechless in front of outsiders.Now that she has the guts to lobby important officials in the court, it has to be said that the growth rate is really amazing.

At that time, Su Qingyuan hadn't had time to express her surprise, Cheng Yu said another strange thing: when she happened to meet Duke Ding two days ago, Su Qingluan suddenly changed her tone, saying that the current situation was unclear, and she advised Dingguo The government is watching from the sidelines, so as not to choose the wrong way.

What Su Yi is planning now concerns the world.Su Qingluan's erratic attitude not only made Duke Ding frown, but also caused Cheng Yu to think a lot, and he never dared to let go of his hanging heart.

After Su Qingyuan learned of this, she felt a little ashamed inexplicably.

Look at it: Qingluan, who was timid and afraid of getting into trouble since she was a child, is willing to work hard for this matter, but her elder sister who is the person involved just hides in the Palace of Youth and spends her days leisurely, isn't it a bit too shameful?
Thinking about it carefully, it's really hard to understand: What is Qingluan running around like this for?

Qingluan's attitude changed probably after meeting her father, so what exactly did her father say to her?In other words, what kind of deal did Qingluan reach with his father?
Seeing that her sister woke up, Su Qingluan immediately showed a soft smile: "Sister is really exhausted—is she feeling better now?"

Su Qingyuan narrowed her eyes and looked at her: "You have always been weak, you should take a good rest. Sitting on such a small stool, aren't you tired?"

"I want to be with my sister." Su Qingluan looked very cute.

Su Qingyuan frowned.

In addition to a few concubines, there are also a few female members of the clan who don't know their seniority in this palace.Those people are not of high rank, and they don't know much about the rules. They often squint their eyes and look at them secretly. Although they dare not speak, their eyeballs are rolling back and forth very uneasy.

Su Qingyuan just glanced at it and felt upset, she took Su Qingluan's hand and sat up: "Let's go for a walk?"

Su Qingluan's eyes lit up immediately: "Qingluan just has this intention, I'm afraid my sister will be too tired."

Luoxia frowned when she heard the words: "The emperor told the queen mother to stay safe and not to wander around."

Su Qingluan said with a smile: "We just wander around here casually, so we won't cause trouble."

Luoxia wanted to say something else, but Su Qingyuan had already patted her hand: "Don't worry. Qingluan is less courageous than a rabbit. The word 'provoking trouble' has never been used by her—besides, there is still You?"

The two sisters persisted repeatedly, but Luoxia couldn't stop it.So Su Qingyuan took Danyue and Luoxia, Su Qingluan took Xiaozhi, and the five masters and servants went out together, walking in a direction with few people.

Luoxia looked around and carefully reminded: "This cemetery is built according to the regulations of Miyagi, and further back is the underground palace...the place is chilly, and there is nothing to see, why don't we go back. "

Su Qingluan said with a smile: "It's so easy to come out, it doesn't hurt to walk around again. I heard that there are many exquisite Weng Zhong at the gate of the underground palace. Can my sister accompany me to take a look?"

Su Qingyuan was feeling unwilling to go back, so naturally there was no reason not to agree to her.

At the end of the cemetery and at the entrance of the underground palace, there are indeed many stone statues: civil and military officials, mountain beasts, and legendary auspicious beasts such as Xianglong and Qilin.

It was rare for Su Qingluan to be so happy, turning around those stones, looking at this and then at that, unable to take his eyes off at all.

Su Qingyuan got annoyed after watching it for a while.In addition, this section of the road is not close, and she gradually feels a little out of breath.

"Danyue." She stretched out her hand to the back, motioning for Danyue to come and help her.

There was no answer from behind.

Su Qingyuan turned her head, only to realize that Danyue and Luoxia had disappeared behind her.

Not only that, but the twig that Su Qingluan brought also disappeared.

Su Qingyuan became more and more suspicious in her heart, but her face remained calm.

After a while, Su Qingluan also discovered this problem, and immediately frowned: "Those three girls are even more playful than us! Ask them to come out to play for a while, and they are really lazy!"

Su Qingyuan smiled lightly: "Forget it, it's rare for them to come out. What else do you want to see?"

Su Qingluan tilted her head and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "I want to read it everywhere! I have only seen these days in books, but now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I know that books cannot write such a powerful Majestic, I have learned a lot today! Sister, let's go into the underground palace and have a look, shall we?"

Su Qingyuan shook her head helplessly and said: "The underground palace is just a tomb, what's there to see? Besides, the Broken Dragon Stone has already been put down, we can't get in."

Su Qingluan tugged at her sleeve, and said coquettishly: "Then let's go and see the Broken Dragon Stone! Sister, you know that I don't usually go out, and I have little knowledge... I will be laughed at in the future!"

***
In Yande Hall, the sacrificial ceremony was drawing to a close.

Just wait for the clan women and officials below the third grade who had previously avoided the left and right side halls to arrive, perform the big ceremony again, hold the mourning clothes on the altar and burn them, and then they will be done and go back to the palace.

Unexpectedly, the incident happened at this time - the little eunuch who went to the Xipian Hall to pass the message came back and reported that the Queen Mother and Concubine Shu were not in the hall.

Lu Li's expression changed drastically: "What do you mean 'not in the palace'? Where did they go? How long have they been out?"

The little eunuch cried and said, "It will be almost two hours! Xiao Linzi next to the queen mother said that it was the concubine Shu who made an appointment to go out for a walk, but who knew that she never came back after leaving... The servants dare not interrupt the ceremony, so they can only call A team of guards quietly went looking for it - and it has not been found yet."

With a dark face, Lu Li called Xiao Linzi in, but he didn't get any useful information. He only knew that the two of them were going to the cemetery.

At this time, all the officials and the rest of the clan and female relatives had arrived, and the atmosphere in the hall was a little weird for a while.

It's fine if ordinary people don't come, the empress dowager is not an ordinary person.

When the female relatives undress their mourning clothes and remove their filial piety, they must be led by the Queen Mother.This is an important part of the ritual, and there is absolutely no reason to omit it.

Unless the queen mother is not alive, the highest ranking concubine can perform this ceremony on her behalf.

Everyone in the hall looked at each other, none of them looked good.

There are those who are angry, and those who are doubtful, but more people can't help but link this strange incident with some conspiracy, and quietly clenched their fists.

Unable to hold back, Lu Li pushed Xiao Linzi away and rushed outside immediately.

"Your Majesty!" Several officials from the Ministry of Rites rushed up to stop him.

"Get out!" Lu Li yelled angrily.

The Minister of the Ministry of Rites blocked the door, and said sternly: "Your Majesty, please stay. The sacrifice is not over yet, you must not leave Yande Hall, otherwise it will be very bad luck!"

Lu Li's face darkened completely: "If something happens to the Queen Mother, you..."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" A sharp female voice suddenly rang out from outside.

Lu Li was slightly taken aback, the man had rushed in.

It was the twig next to Su Qingluan.

As soon as she entered the door, she knelt down at Lu Li's feet, crying loudly, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager, she, she..."

"Speak well!" Lu Li was so anxious that his eyes turned red.

Xiao Zhi hit her forehead heavily on the ground: "The Empress Dowager, she... she committed suicide by taking poison before the Dragon Breaking Stone in the underground palace!"

Lu Li stood there in a daze, as if he didn't understand her words at all.

Xiaozhi waited for a long time, and couldn't help raising her head: "The emperor?"

Lu Li's face was bloodless, but his eyes were terribly red, as if they were about to breathe fire.

He suddenly reached out and picked up Xiao Zhi's collar, and threw her out heavily: "Nonsense! Xiao Luzi, drag this lowly servant girl out and beat her to death!"

Xiao Zhi was so frightened that her legs went limp: "Your Majesty, this servant is wronged, this servant is wronged! This servant saw with her own eyes that the Empress Dowager and Concubine Shu walked into the underground palace together. Before the Broken Dragon Stone, the Empress Dowager said a few words to herself The servant girl and concubine Shu couldn't hear the words clearly, and in a blink of an eye, the queen mother took out a pill from the sachet and swallowed it—there was no breath on the spot!"

Lu Li slowly let go of his hand, his fingertips trembling slightly, his expression pale.

Xiao Luzi reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, should you send someone to the underground palace immediately..."

Lu Li stood there in a daze for a long time, and finally said in a shy voice, "I... will go in person."

"But Your Majesty..." Xiao Luzi hesitated to speak.

Lu Li glanced at him, gritted his teeth and said, "You guys are waiting here, don't move around at will."

Xiaoluzi understood, and hurriedly responded loudly.

Lu Li straightened his chest, pretended to be nonchalant, and walked slowly outside.

Because his feet were weak, every step he took was very difficult.

When he was about to reach the door, there was a sudden shout behind him: "Wait a minute!"

Lu Li stopped and didn't look back.

Su Yi came out more and more, and walked to the center of the hall: "The emperor is so anxious to go out, but what is the purpose of leaving all the officials in the Yande hall?"

Lu Li said in a deep voice: "The ceremony is not over yet, so it shouldn't be interrupted lightly. It's just that I'm worried about the safety of my mother, so I have to go to the underground palace in person. I don't think the father will blame it—why, the general has objections?"

Su Yi's expression was stern and aggressive: "According to this girl, the queen mother has passed away, so what's the 'safety' at all? Since the emperor knows that the ceremony cannot be interrupted, he still insists on going to the underground palace in person. I'm afraid it's not just out of filial piety, right? "

"General Su, are you questioning me?" Lu Li suddenly turned around.

Su Yi stared at him without showing any weakness: "That's right! I just want to question the emperor—after hearing that the queen mother took poison, you didn't question whether the girl's words were credible, but you just rushed to see it yourself. Pure and filial, or is it because you have ghosts in your heart that you rush to the underground palace to destroy the corpses and traces?"

Lu Li was so anxious that he really had no intention of arguing with him.

Seeing this, Xiao Luzi raised his head and shouted sharply: "General Su, please remember that this is in the imperial mausoleum! You are so nonchalant, aren't you afraid that the heroes of the past emperors are not far away?"

Su Yi sneered: "The heroic spirits of the previous emperors are not far away? If the late emperors really had spirits, our emperor should be the first to be afraid! Your majesty, don't you fear you when you do such things that violate human relations and are inferior to animals? Are the ancestors watching you here!"

Xiao Luzi turned pale with fright: "General Su, you..."

Su Yi let out a yell, and picked up the slumped twig again: "I'm afraid what you said just now is not true! What did the queen mother say in the underground palace, you really didn't hear a single word?"

Xiaozhi cried out of breath: "Slaves, servants dare not say..."

"Say!" Su Yi's voice sounded like a bell.

Xiaozhi cried for a long time with her shoulders trembling, and said intermittently: "The servant girl heard the Queen Mother say some inexplicable things like 'life is better than death', 'disregarding human relations' and so on, and she also said, 'I have no face to see the first emperor in the ground', and the servant girl also listened to it. I don’t understand. I just remember that the Empress Dowager gave an order when she was dying, ‘the corpses should be cremated and sprinkled in the middle of the road, so that thousands of people will trample on them, and this may reduce the sins of this life’…”

"My daughter!" Su Yi's face was full of tears, "Why are you guilty? The one who persecuted you is the one who is guilty, that brute who is so inhuman that he would never let his aunt down!"

"Xiao Luzi, bring a group of people to the underground palace, no matter what or whom you see, bring them here." Lu Li clenched his fists and said coldly.

Xiao Luzi didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately went out to take someone with him.

Lu Li walked slowly to the altar, and glanced around at the crowd: "I don't understand what General Su said, and I dare not understand it. It's just that you are so aggressive, it reminds me of one thing - recently the imperial court The people inside and outside talk like a bummer, and the filthy words are unbearable, I have never found out who is causing the trouble, now it seems that it may be related to General Su, right?"

"If you want people to know, you have to do nothing! The emperor is so unscrupulous, do you really think you can hide it from the world?" Su Yi confronted.

Lu Li's expression was gloomy, and he said after a long time, "I've never been afraid of people's words. I thought that the rumors would eventually dissipate, but I didn't expect...if it's someone else, the queen mother is your own daughter. How could General Su have the heart to fabricate such vicious words? , forcing her to have nowhere to live! The empress mother is innocent, but she can't escape the disaster of rumors in the end, it really is scary for people's words and people's hearts!"

His tone was mournful, his face was ashen, these words were spoken with sincerity, and everyone who heard them felt sympathy.

Different from the common people's curiosity-seeking psychology, the officials of the DPRK and China still believed in Lu Li more.

After all, that is their emperor.No one wants to believe that their emperor will do such a rebellious thing.

Therefore, when Su Yi stood up again, someone couldn't help it: "General Su, you are not only being rude to the emperor, but also maliciously slandering and spreading rumors to make trouble. What is your intention?"

"Whether the old man has maliciously slandered or not will be known in a while. What are you in a hurry for?" Su Yi was not afraid at all.

Su Qingyuan's image in the eyes of the courtiers has never been good, and the trust of the courtiers in her is not as firm as that of Lu Li.Therefore, at this moment, many people gradually began to worry.

Chongzheng envoy Xue Li stood up and said with a sneer: "General Su's so-called 'seeing the truth', could it be some 'evidence' that you and the Queen Mother conspired to forge? Both the Queen Mother and Concubine Shu are your daughters, and your father and daughter three People have ulterior motives, who doesn't know?"

Su Yi glanced at Xue Li coldly, and said sharply: "You can argue with your words, the world has its own opinion on what is right and what is wrong! My daughter was defiled by this madman the night she entered the palace, and she proclaimed adultery in public day and night. The servants in Hua Palace and Yangju Palace can all testify! At that time, the late emperor was newly mourned, and everyone in the world thought that the fate of the Empress Dowager was unlucky, and treated her like a scourge. You couldn't find death, but you ended up getting pregnant with this bastard! Lu Li, do you dare to swear to the late emperor's spiritual seat that what I just said was all nonsense?"

Lu Li's face sank like water: "Your words are of course nonsense, but why should I let you dictate? General Su, don't you think that this world can already be controlled by you?"

Su Yi roared angrily: "Of course this world will not be controlled by the old man! The old man went up the mountain today, so he didn't intend to live on! My lords, think about it carefully—this person advertises loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, why did he rush to marry him before the filial piety period expired?" Qingluan, the youngest daughter of my Su family, can't even wait for a month or two to become a concubine? That's because he wants to force the queen mother to give birth to that evil son, and raise her under the name of concubine Shu to hide it! It's a pity that the queen mother still has a sense of shame and refuses to bear the shame Steal your life and let him manipulate you! Lu Li, you raped your aunt, committed incest and disobeyed etiquette, and eventually caused the empress dowager to kill herself, shamed the heavenly family, and shamed the saints. Your Majesty, what kind of face is there to pretend to be the Ninth Five-Year Lord!"

His voice exploded like thunder, shaking the roof tiles.

While sternly yelling and questioning, he walked up to Lu Li step by step, staring at him fiercely, just like he would stare at those defenseless soldiers on the battlefield.

His aura itself was his weapon for killing people.

When the officials saw him being so aggressive, they couldn't help but whisper in their hearts, and couldn't help but believe him a bit.

Surprisingly, Lu Li was not intimidated by Su Yi's aura at all.

After Su Yi's cursing stopped, Lu Li slowly raised the corners of his lips and smiled: "A few days ago, my mother told me that General Su is old and unconscious, and I am afraid that he is no longer qualified to be a general. At that time, I was just talking and joking when I was the queen mother, but at this moment, it seems that the general's mind is really a little unclear!"

"Lu Li, you don't have to struggle to die anymore!" Su Yi mocked contemptuously.

Lu Li's expression became very calm at some point.He has never been as aggressive as Su Yi, but for some reason, his momentum doesn't seem to be suppressed either.

Facing Su Yi's ridicule and persecution, he smiled more calmly: "General Su, the person who is dying is probably you!"

(End of this chapter)